On 22-Dec-2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > Apache 2.0 requires distributing any NOTICE file along with > derivative works […]
My reading of the license text doesn't match that. I think you are
referring to Apache License version 2.0, § 4 (d):
(d) If the Work includes a "NOTICE" text file as part of its
distribution, then any Derivative Works that You distribute
must include a readable copy of the attribution notices
contained within such NOTICE file, excluding those notices
that do not pertain to any part of the Derivative Works, in
at least one of the following places: within a NOTICE text
file distributed as part of the Derivative Works; within the
Source form or documentation, if provided along with the
Derivative Works; or, within a display generated by the
Derivative Works, if and wherever such third-party notices
normally appear. The contents of the NOTICE file are for
informational purposes only and do not modify the License.
You may add Your own attribution notices within Derivative
Works that You distribute, alongside or as an addendum to
the NOTICE text from the Work, provided that such additional
attribution notices cannot be construed as modifying the
License.
That does require “Derivative Works […] must include a readable copy
of the attribution notices contained within such NOTICE file […] in at
least one of the following places: […] within the Source form or
documentation, if provided along with the Derivative Works; […]”.
Do you think the routine inclusion of those notices, in the package's
‘copyright’ file, does not satisfy the above clause? I think it does:
that file is installed in the documentation along with the package.
So, I am not seeing how you think the ‘NOTICE’ file itself must be
duplicated.
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